Wrecked Italian aeroplane, and soldier searching for land mines, Tripoli, Libya, World War 2

Wrecked Italian aeroplane, and soldier searching for land mines, Tripoli, Libya, World War 2
Date
ca Dec 1942
By
Paton, Harold Gear, 1919-2010
Reference
DA-06912-F
Description

Unidentified New Zealand sapper searching an Axis landing ground in Tripoli, Libya, for land mines and booby traps. A wrecked Italian aeroplane is alongside. Photographed by H Paton circa 1942.

Note on back of file print reads: "...in December as the 8 Army advances on Tripoli"

Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Physical Description: Film negative

Access restrictions
Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
Part of
New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency / World War 1939-1945 official negatives - DA Series
Format
1 b&w original negative(s), Negatives, Film negative, Orientation: Horizontal image
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Paton, Harold Gear, 1919-2010. Wrecked Italian aeroplane, and soldier searching for land mines, Tripoli, Libya, World War 2. New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency. Ref: DA-06912-F. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/22705624

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